Fedegenerate

Eh, I use Gemini to project manage my little herb garden. Low stakes, well trodden ground. It was the kind of thing I knew LLMs could handle for stuff I do know about, so I’m trusting it for something I don’t know about.

Ultimately it doesn’t matter if my herbs live or die, I know I’ll kill them on my own though. Gardening isn’t a skill I want to actively acquire, I just want the herbs. It (the garden) is doing fine. I had some yellow leaves, the bot said to top dress it, I did, no more yellow leaves. So far so good.

Anything beyond the well trodden LLMs are shit at though. I tried to use it to find a specific motorcycle part, discontinued by the manufacturer: it couldn’t. When I wanted it to shop for me, it failed. It seems to be doing well managing this non-commercial project for me.

Besides, it’s just a good way of doing it. For the people that want to DIY: here’s the instructions. For people that just want the thing: here’s the payment instructions.

Sometimes I just want the thing.

I stuck a rPi in their houses that runs pihole+nginx+tailscale. As far as they’re concerned they go to https://jellyfin.example.domain/ and they’re there.

Better yet, they go to http://homarr.notlocal/ and they have nice little icons to click on, that take them to all the front-end services I run.

They get pihole goodness for free. Their homepage is attached to their pihole if they want to pause/stop it.

I’d like to set them up to be more declarative than I have, setup/updating is a pain. Nix is interesting but the learning curve is too steep for the effort I’m willing to put in. As per usual, being lazy will end up being more work for me in the long run.

Who’s hosting your email? I’d like to migrate, I’m just facing a bit of choice paralysis.

I think that’s an acceptable price of being on the open and free internet.

Everything I do is in the open, and you are free to do as you wish with it. Likewise, everything you do is in the open and you accept, by being here, that I am free to do what I wish with it.

Defederation is likely what you’re looking for, find an instance that defederates GenAI friendly instances.

You underestimate how short my reach is. Welcome

A bold claim. But edges out the second by just a hair.

Fine, I’ll be the low bar.

Proxmox, I just use the GUI to update

I use community-scripts almost exclusively. Community-scripts cron lxc updater does the heavy lifting. pct enter [lxc]

update

does a bunch of work too.

For Docker, I use a couple lxcs with Dockge on it, the “update” button takes me most of the rest of the way.

Finally, I have a couple remote machines [diet-pi]. I haven’t figured out updating over tailscale yet, so I just go round semi frequently for the apt update && apt upgrade -y

VMs get the apt update && apt upgrade -y too. I keep a bare bones mint VM as a virtual laptop, as I don’t have one. I’ll do what I need to do and if I had to install software I’ll just nuke the VM and go again from the bare bones template.

The answer is found in capitalism. Why are gamers, who have continually been fucked by capitalism, so blind at seeing the obvious. '80s game crash: capitalism. Day one DLC: capitalism. Micro transactions: capitalism. All the hardware being hoovered up, so software costs more at every level, increasing prices for both hardware and software: capitalism.

Going into spring/summer that’s ideal, I wanna go places do things. Mid winter, I’m feature creeping till something breaks.

The fact that it was legally mandated is good evidence that it is [necessary].

P1 If X was legally mandated then that is good evidence that X is necessary.

P2 Slavery was legally mandated (in the USA)

C1 There is good evidence slavery is necessary.

P3 [insert other silly/abhorrent thing here: ICE in general, state murder…] was legally mandated.

C2 There is good evidence silly/abhorrent thing is necessary.

Personally I’d reject P1, the law isn’t an arbitrator of mortality, or truth. Due to C2 I’d side eye anyone who says it is.